Be it remembered that on this Fifth day of January, Eighteen hundered
and forty six, personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of
the Peace within and for the county of St LouisSt Louis aforesaid BenjaminBenjamin
Ames who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is
subscribed to the within instrument of writing as a witness who being
by and duly sworn on his oath says that CharlesCharles
Dodier whose name is subscribed to said deed as a party thereto is the
same person who subscribed exe

cuted the
same and that he signed, sealed and delivered the same by way of making
his mark and acknow

for the purposes therein mentioned, in
his witness presence, and at his request he, witness, subscribed his
name as a witness thereto, as a witness of the execution thereof Taken
and certified the day and year aforesaid, Alphonso WitmoreAlphonso Witmore , Justice of
the Peace